And one element that was likely of great assistance to law enforcement is that the ground crew could not communicate with the pilot. The signals were jammed. Rosado explained:
Dr. Richard Rosado, COMPOL
"Whenever a declaration is made for an illicit track, all the law enforcement agencies, all the security forces agency, the operational units directly engage and automatically report to the JOIC for coordination. And that includes the customs department."
Jules Vasquez
"Yeah, but a lot of times they are running around, no fault of yours, like chicken without heads, because you know, you don't know if it's blue creek, you don't know if that's a big one."
Dr. Richard Rosado, COMPOL
"This is the first time you are seeing perfect coordination from the security forces, the law enforcement agency. So we are working in unison. We are coordinating operations."
Jules Vasquez
"But is it just serendipity? Because customs happen upon these people in that area."
ASP Stacy Smith, Staff Officer
"Certainly, you would like to attribute it to serendipity, to luck, to fortune, and not the consequence of security forces and law enforcement working together."
"But I regret to inform you, Mr. Vasquez, that it is indeed a product of security services working together. As Commissioner Rosado has stated, whenever a track is declared, there are several standard operating procedures that are put into place, and that touches and concerns all law enforcement and security services agencies."
"There are areas of interest countrywide that are dispatched, or persons are deployed and dispatched to those areas to reconnaissance of the activities to be able to further inform. Because whilst we may suspect that it may land in Belize, unfortunately, there are more than one location, and we have to be prepared to adequately respond to whichever of those locations it is."
